At ExtraHop, we’re on a mission to protect and empower the connected enterprise. We reveal what is happening in the very infrastructure that sustains businesses, lives, and communities, and ensure the integrity of networks, data, systems, and processes. Organizations rely on ExtraHop to provide visibility into the cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and network performance issues that evade their existing security and IT tools. With this insight, organizations can investigate smarter, stop threats faster, and keep operations running.
Our mission is fueled by a profound social and moral responsibility to be the best at what we do, ensuring a secure world where everyone can thrive. If this sounds like a place you’d like to spend the next chapter of your career, we’d love to hear from you.
Position Summary
Extrahop is at the forefront of innovation in the cybersecurity space, delivering cutting-edge solutions to protect organizations against evolving threats. Our Network Detection and Response (NDR) products empower businesses to detect, respond to and mitigate cyber risks in real time.
We seek a motivated and experienced Software Engineer II to join our dynamic product development team. In this role, you will take on more complex development challenges, contribute to architecture and design discussions, and help scale secure systems that power our core products. You will work with cross-functional partners to deliver customer-facing features that enable detection, visibility, and automation at scale. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in collaborative environments, demonstrates initiative, and is driven to deliver impact through technical excellence
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deploy robust software components for our NDR products, taking ownership of moderately complex features with minimal guidance.
- Collaborate with product and architecture teams to translate business requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
- Investigate, diagnose, and resolve production and performance issues, driving root-cause analysis and preventive measures.
- Contribute to platform modernization initiatives and the adoption of new technologies or frameworks.
- Mentor junior team members through code pairing, reviews, and knowledge-sharing.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while adhering to best practices and agile methodology.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 2+ years of professional experience developing production-grade software.
- Solid knowledge of Go, Python, or an equivalent programming language.
- Proven ability to build and maintain distributed systems or cloud-based services (AWS preferred).
- Understanding of REST APIs, microservice architecture, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to decompose complex problems into actionable engineering tasks.
- Excellent collaborator and communicator with a growth mindset.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with machine learning applications in cybersecurity.
- Knowledge of tools and frameworks commonly used in NDR.
- Understanding of threat detection, intrusion prevention, and incident response strategies.
The salary range for this role is $145,000 - $160,000 + bonus + benefits
ABOUT EXTRAHOP
ExtraHop is reinventing Network Detection and Response (NDR) to offer enterprises unparalleled visibility, context, and control against emerging threats. The platform integrates NDR with Network Performance Management (NPM), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and forensics, providing a single, comprehensive solution. By decrypting and analyzing complete packet-level data at wire speed and leveraging cloud-scale machine learning, ExtraHop empowers Security Operations Centers (SOCs) to detect, investigate, and remediate modern cyber risks in real time across their entire hybrid infrastructure, including data center, cloud, and SASE environments.
This comprehensive approach and market innovation have earned ExtraHop unique recognition as the only NDR vendor acknowledged as a leader by all major analyst firms, including the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response™, the 2025 Forrester® Wave for Network Analysis and Visibility, the 2024 IDC® Marketscape for NDR, and the 2025 Gigamon® Radar Report for Network Detection and Response. Since 2007, ExtraHop has consistently helped organizations worldwide extract in-depth network telemetry and contextual insights, affirming its commitment to protecting and empowering the connected enterprise.
OUR VALUES
Our culture is rooted in our five Values. These set the expectations for how we work individually and collectively as a team.
Lead with Purpose: We are driven to deliver results that create a positive impact for our customers, partners, and colleagues.
Act with Integrity: We operate with transparency, authenticity, and always in the best interest of the company.
Find a Way: We are resourceful, tackle hard problems with a sense of urgency and ownership, and do what it takes to get the job done.
Innovate: We listen to customers, partners, and the market, and respectfully push boundaries and challenge the status quo.
Share Success: We run together, we win together. We value diverse perspectives, hold space for all voices, and achieve the best results as a team.
BENEFITS
Employees' wellbeing is top of mind for the ExtraHop team. Employees and their families will have the option to participate in the following benefits:
- Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits
- Flexible PTO, Sick Time Prorated Based on Date of Hire, and All Federal Holidays (US Only) + 3 Days of Paid Volunteer Time
- Non-Commissioned Positions may be eligible to participate in the Annual Discretionary Bonus Plan
- FSA and Dependent Care Accounts + EAP, where applicable
- Educational Reimbursement
- 401k with Employer Match or Pension where applicable
- Pet Insurance (US Only)
- Parental Leave (US Only)
- Hybrid and Remote Work Model
Our people are our most important competitive advantage, leading the charge against cyber criminals. Join the fight today!
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of professional backend development experience with at least two years at a senior level
- Solid knowledge of Go or Python (or equivalent programming language) and strong programming fundamentals
- Experience in machine learning, statistics, or a related quantitative discipline
- Experience building or operating production AI/ML systems, including model lifecycle management, data/training pipelines, and monitoring
- Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (particularly AWS)
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git) and agile development practices
- Experience with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Strong problem-solving skills, self-starter mentality, and demonstrated technical ownership
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with Django, FastAPI, or another Python web framework
- Experience with cloud services on AWS or Azure (EKS / RDS / S3 / SQS / EC2 / IAM)
- Experience with infrastructure tooling such as HashiCorp Packer, Vault, Terraform
- Experience in API development, PostgreSQL database design, or SQL query performance optimization
- Familiarity with machine learning applications in cybersecurity or NDR environments
- Knowledge of tools and frameworks commonly used in network detection and response and understanding of threat detection, intrusion prevention, and incident response strategies
What We Do
ExtraHop secures the hybrid enterprise through network detection and response. ExtraHop provides cloud-native network detection and response for the hybrid enterprise. Our breakthrough approach analyzes all network interactions and applies cloud-scale machine learning for complete visibility, real-time detection, and intelligent response.
Why Work With Us
We are ExtraHoppers. We like what we do and the people we do it with. We don't just solve problems for our customers, we help them rise above the noise of threats, alerts, and corporate gridlock to realize true security and exceptional performance.
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